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Call for Abstracts: Decolonizing Feminism

Decolonizing Feminism: Transnational Feminism & Globalization

Edited by Margaret A. McLaren

This anthology will address pressing questions for transnational feminism in the 21st Century: strategies, methodologies, and controversies. Following Chandra Mohanty’s call for an inclusive feminist politics, this book will focus on current challenges for global/transnational feminism in a globalized world, and how to decolonize feminist theory and feminism. Authors should submit a proposal for an original essay addressing one of the questions below.

Chandra Mohanty has called for an inclusive feminist politics that would be: decolonizing, anti-capitalist, and allow for solidarity.

• In a time of globalization what would this entail?
• Are the visions of a global feminism and transnational feminism compatible
• Is the human rights approach the best approach for feminists in the 21st century
• How do we (feminists) create networks of solidarity transnationally
• How is decolonization enacted in specific locations and projects
• Which methodologies promote a decolonized transnational feminism
• What strategies of resistance work against the force of neo-liberal globalization
• What are some possible interfaces between the local and the global
• How does social location/positionality/identities influence proposed strategies for achieving global gender justice?

Interested authors should submit a 750-word summary of their proposed chapter to Margaret McLaren: [email protected] by Dec 15, 2015. Include author’s name and institutional affiliation on submission. If accepted, the final 10,000-12, 000 word version of the chapter will be due by Sept. 1, 2016.

 

Rhodes Must Fall protest at Oxford

http://oxfordstudent.com/2015/10/24/students-wear-red-in-matriculation-protest/

Students wore red as they matriculated on Saturday in protest at what they say is the University’s continued celebration of colonialism and lack of diversity.

“The wearing of red by matriculating students draws attention to this bloodshed and related oppression, and highlights Oxford’s red-tape culture, which slows down change.  Rhodes Must Fall Oxford also hopes that the wearing of red underscores the need for passion and transformation to raise awareness of these issues in the coming year at Oxford.

“Rhodes Must Fall Oxford looks forward to a year of transformation at Oxford, and hopes that this matricul-action is a sign of things to come.”